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De oorlog in Gaza is niet meer „rechtvaardig” te noemen, vindt Michael Walzer. De historicus en filosoof schreef in 1977 het boek Just and Unjust Wars, dat nog altijd wordt gebruikt aan militaire academies.

‘Design icoon’ Hella Jongerius (63) werkt al meer dan dertig jaar met textiel. Ze ontwierp onder andere de Knitted Lamp voor Droog Design, de Polder Sofa voor Vitra en een nieuw interieur voor KLM en de VN-lounge in New York. Onlangs schonk ze haar ontwerparchief aan het TextielMuseum in Tilburg, dat een selectie toont in de tentoonstelling Hella Jongerius – Slimme handen.

Soms blijkt na veel bloed, zweet en tranen dat je het verkeerde probleem hebt opgelost. De cijfers zijn beter, maar je collega, klant of echtgenoot is nog steeds ontevreden.

Het is een young man’s game, maar een dag na zijn veertigste verjaardag bewijst Fresku in het Concertgebouw hoe begenadigd hij als rapper is. En voorlopig gaat hij nog door, vooral voor zijn kinderen.

Dozens of Russian satellites have been tracked orbiting above facilities in Saudi Arabia before and after Iran-backed groups attacked them.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☀️ - 28-10-2026 13:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 14.2°C · Zonnig ☀️ | Min 10.7°C / Max 14.5°C | Kans op neerslag 2%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 10.7°C, Max 14.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1026.7 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 228°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 14:00: 14.3°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1026.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°
• 15:00: 14.5°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1026.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 243°
• 16:00: 14.3°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1026.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 239°
• 17:00: 14.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1026.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 233°
• 18:00: 13.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 211°
• 19:00: 13.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 222°
• 20:00: 13.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1027.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 231°
• 21:00: 13.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1027.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 226°
• 22:00: 13.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1027.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 230°
• 23:00: 13.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1027.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 239°
• 00:00: 13.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1027.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 234°
• 01:00: 13.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 226°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 29 oktober: Min 11.4°C, Max 16.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1029.2 hPa ↗️ +2.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 223°
• vrijdag 30 oktober: Min 8.3°C, Max 14.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1031.2 hPa ↗️ +2.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ← 86°
• zaterdag 31 oktober: Min 7.0°C, Max 10.4°C (Mist) 🌫️, 🧭 1032.9 hPa ↗️ +1.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.6 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 64°
• zondag 01 november: Min 9.2°C, Max 12.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1032.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ↓ 11°
• maandag 02 november: Min 8.4°C, Max 12.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1033.9 hPa ↗️ +1.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.7 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↓ 14°
• dinsdag 03 november: Min 8.1°C, Max 12.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1034.7 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.5 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 36°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 14.2°C (Zonnig)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 11.5°C (-2.7°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 239°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 33.8 km/h (9.4 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 71%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1026.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 19.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 1.8
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:29 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 17:21

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 33 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 4.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 11.9 μg/m³

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Adam Hamilton in Kansas, Dan Osborn in Nebraska, Joshua Turek in Iowa. They’re all hoping to flip ruby-red states in the midterm elections next Tuesday.

Jonathan Freedland speaks to Rachel Leingang about her reporting across the midwest, where she has charted the renaissance of progressive populism

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Food safety campaigners have long been concerned about pesticide residues on lemons, limes and oranges – and now a social media post about it has gone viral. How safe is it to eat lemon cake or drink a G&T with ice and a slice?

Do you sprinkle citrus zest on to your cooking or drink hot water with a slice of lemon? According to an Instagram post that went viral last week, you shouldn’t. “Select citrus fruits at Lidl now come with a ‘Peel unfit for consumption’ warning,” posts @wholefoodwarrior. She photographs some of the supermarket’s labels, which list the post-harvest chemicals used to conserve the fruit: azoxystrobin and fludioxonil (limes) and imazalil, 2-phenylphenol, thiabendazole, pyrimethanil and fludioxonil (easy peelers), plus E903 in the peel’s wax coating (both).

The 10,500 comments on the post are largely appalled. So what are these substances? And how worried should consumers be?

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Both of these threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. We have the power to stand against them

A summer of extreme heat, entire villages obliterated in Nepal, a super El Niño breaking records, Exxon publicly saying we may reach 3C by 2050 – could it possibly be any worse?

How about throwing AI extinction in the mix?

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The Waorani leader says millennia of living in harmony with their surroundings give Indigenous groups unique insights into the consumerist west

Every Waorani child knows the story of the boa’s mouth. How the snake inches forward, watching, its movements almost imperceptible, before it strikes, swallowing its victim whole.

Nemonte Nenquimo knows the boa’s bite. Beguiled as a young girl by the blue eyes and bright dresses of an American missionary child in her Amazon village in Ecuador, she consented to be baptised and left home to study at a church school.

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A new documentary follows the Chicagoan from child trumpet prodigy to Gabriel-singing icon and DIY maverick. ‘Not everybody wants to see musical genius’, he says

At We Out Here festival in Dorset in August, thousands of people could be heard singing a trumpet melody as if it was a giant brass-band karaoke session. On stage was Peven Everett, performing a rendition of Gabriel, one of the most celebrated anthems in dance-music history. Co-created with producer Roy Davis Jr, the best-known version, which blew up in UK clubs in the mid-90s, is a spiritual garage-house track about the “archangel of love” that can bring both punters and DJs to tears.

But Everett is much more than one song. Damon Albarn of Gorillaz tells me that “Peven has a once-in-a-generation voice … he’s a great inspiration to us all.” We Out Here founder, Gilles Peterson says that the Chicagoan is, alongside Detroit’s Moodymann and Amp Fiddler, “the closest thing dance music has to a Prince-type figure”. A prolific multi-instrumentalist and one-man cottage industry, Everett’s catalogue spans more than 500 tracks, across house, neo-soul, hip-hop, samba and more.

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Sergiy Galyonkin has added a photo to the pool:

A green Shinkansen beside a platform near Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Passengers wait beneath the station roof. July 2026.

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered 2026 ED138, a large object beyond Neptune that could become the solar system's sixth recognized dwarf planet if further observations confirm it is massive enough to be round. Located about 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth, the object is estimated to be 600 to 1,500 kilometers wide and had remained hidden because it lies against a particularly crowded field of Milky Way stars. Scientific American reports: The discovery was made by running billions of pieces of data collected by the Rubin Observatory through a search code developed by Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian astronomers Matthew Holman and Kevin Napier. "My first reaction was one of excited disbelief," Holman said in a statement. "Objects like this are very rare, so I immediately started checking whether I or the code had done something wrong."

When Holman and his colleague Mario Juric of the University of Washington went to double-check, they found 30 more observations of the object by Rubin that dated to between March and July 2026. Looking at other observation tools, the pair found even more sightings going back to 2016. Together, these data allowed the astronomers to begin mapping out 2026 ED138's orbit. The suspected dwarf planet is about 46 times as far from the sun as Earth, making it even more remote than Pluto, which is just 40 times as far. The object is also tilted off the solar system's plane by around 25 degrees, an arrangement that could be linked to disruptions caused by Neptune's gravitational pull.

Initial measurements indicate that 2026 ED138 has a diameter between 600 and 1,500 kilometers (373 and 932 miles), which makes it one of the largest dwarf planet candidates yet detected. But size isn't all that matters: further observations are required to determine if the object has enough mass to be pulled into a round shape, which is a key requirement for a dwarf planet. Despite its size, 2026 ED138 was able to avoid detection for all these years because it's located in a part of the night sky that's crowded with stars whose light drowned it out.

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Cisco has open sourced a behavior detection engine that watches AI agents, to help security teams prevent rogue agents from going off the rails like they did with the Hugging Face hack – or worse. It’s called Project Quarry, and it aims to provide a “shared language” for evaluating agent behavior, along the lines of what Snort, which Cisco also maintains, did for detecting malicious network traffic and what YARA did for rule-based malware identification. Most detection tools rely on specific interactions with an AI model or agent. Did it attempt prompt injection? Or did the agent call an attack tool? “But what is missing is the entire context under which something may occur,” Amy Chang, head of AI threat and security research at Cisco, said in an exclusive interview with The Register. She likened this to credit card fraud detection. Without context, individual transactions such as a small test charge or a single purchase in a location far away from a card-holder's usual location may not raise any flags. “And then you try again,” making another fraudulent purchase, “and that went through, too. So now I’m gonna buy the PS5,” Chang said. “Those are the things that Quarry addresses by taking into consideration the entire agent session,” she explained. “One tool call may seem in-scope until you realize that that next step is taking that information and sending it to an attacker-controlled inbox or server.” Even data theft is a sequence and not a single agentic action. Agentic AI security firm Invariant Labs demonstrated this with a proof-of-concept attack against GitHub's MCP server that hijacked a user's agent via a malicious GitHub Issue, and coerced it into leaking data from private repositories. Simply reading a configuration file, or sending a request to an external endpoint may be legitimate agentic actions. However, combining the two can lead to data exfiltration – and shows “why action relationships matter,” wrote Chang and fellow Cisco researchers Adam Swanda, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, and Konstantin Berlin in a blog post about Quarry shared with The Register ahead of publication “A policy can produce a finding when the trace shows a sensitive file read followed within a defined window by an external send,” they wrote. “The risk comes from the relationship between the two actions, so the finding should preserve evidence from both." Quarry covers single- and multi-turn large language model conversations, agents, tool use, Model Context Protocol (MCP) interactions, and multimodal inputs. In addition to the open source code itself, the project’s GitHub repository includes installation instructions, supported Python versions, plugins for Claude Code, Codex and other MCP-compatible agents, configuration examples, rule-writing guidance, and a rule starter pack. For instance, with the rule pack, “If a base-64 encoded malware is somewhere in the tool call, that would result in a block,” Chang said. The rule format looks similar to a YARA or Snort rule, with a header that details the traffic to examine, content to match, and metadata for tracking the rule. Here’s a Quarry rule that flags an agent that reads a credentials file: While the Cisco Ai researchers have not run Quarry against data describing the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, they suggest that if the intrusion had been read as a complete, step-by-step record of a single session, there were several points where the AI agents’ steps would have given a Quarry rule something to act on and flag for humans. For example, Quarry would probably have flagged internet access from a sandbox. “The rule can flag specific tool calls that reach an external server asset that wasn’t in the task’s allow list,” Chang said. “Another one would be credentials found and used somewhere else.” According to OpenAI’s technical report about the Hugging Face intrusion, this is exactly what happened on July 10, when an agent validated 14 exposed Hugging Face tokens with write access and shared them. “The rule would flag that there was a credential in the tool result that then called an outside service, which is likely not within the parameters of what you would want to do in this case,” Chang said. “We don't want you to go and search for credentials that may have been leaked or inadvertently exposed and then utilize them to conduct a task.” The Cisco team is quick to say that rules along are not a substitute for chain-of-thought monitors, or other forms of human oversight – but they do help record a pattern that other teams can then “review, test, and apply to their own agents,” they wrote. Herein also lies the benefit of open source, and a collective approach to defending against adversarial use of AI, Chang said. “Do we have all the answers? No,” Chang said. “We all see slices of the problem, and it’s important for us to share what we see.”®

UK domain registrar 123 Reg (no relation – Ed) says it was the victim of an “AI-driven cyberattack” that exposed customer data. Customers began receiving their notification emails this week, informing them that their contact information, "related customer relationship data," company VAT numbers, and "product information from an application programming interface (API)" were compromised. A company spokesperson elaborated, saying this means that names, phone numbers, countries, language and currency preferences, account creation dates, the products on the account, and marketing preferences were affected. 123 Reg described the September 18 intrusion as "the first known AI-driven cyberattack against our company," and told The Register that early signs point toward a China-nexus attacker. "Our investigation identified IP addresses that we assessed to be the core attacker infrastructure, which were hosted in China and Singapore, indicating a strong Chinese nexus," the spokesperson said.  "Our investigation further identified AI cyberattack 'skills' hosted on Chinese infrastructure, including copies of skills open sourced by Anthropic and several other AI exploitation frameworks and scripts." They went on to say that many of the artefacts left behind led 123 Reg to suspect that a Chinese state-sponsored group, known for abusing Claude Code in attacks against at least 30 organizations, could be behind the break-in. There is also a suspicion that the same group that hit a number of South Korea’s financial institutions using open-source Chinese AI tool ARTEX, was behind the attack on 123 Reg too. "The TA's mirror of 'anthropic_skills,' and the account naming conventions found on the Chinese servers are consistent with preparation of this class of AI-augmented operation," the spokesperson told us.  "In addition, on October 7, 2026, CrowdStrike published CSA-261162, describing an unknown, likely Chinese-speaking actor that targeted several South Korean financial organizations starting in late September 2026, which is the same period during which we were attacked. "That actor used ARTEX, an open-source Chinese-developed agentic penetration-testing tool released in July 2026, which was also observed to be used in the attack that targeted us." The GoDaddy-owned registrar reported the attack to law enforcement agencies, brought in outside cybersecurity support, and notified the FTC, as well as the data protection authorities in the UK and EU. The company spokesperson added that it worked with Singapore-based ISPs to shut down the attacker's servers in the region, which helped disrupt the attack, in addition to "other actions by us and industry partners." 123 Reg's email to customers stated the attacker's activity "was limited to reading" customer data, although the spokesperson told us "it's possible they created copies of the information," and that this is what prompted the notification. The registrar urged customers to stay alert to the potential misuse of their data, and to treat communications appearing to come from the company with caution. "If you receive a message or call and aren't sure it's from 123 Reg, go directly to our website and log in," the email said. "We will never contact you to request your password, payment details, or verification codes by email, text, or phone. "We also strongly recommend turning on two-step verification (2SV), which helps keep your account protected even if someone tricks you into sharing your password. You can find instructions for setting up 2SV in your 123 Reg account. "We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused." ®

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